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The Social Network: Understanding Your Teen’s Friendships
All parents want their teens to have delightful friends, social smarts for coping with difficult situations, and refusal skills for handling sex, drugs and profane lyrics. But these wonderful things don’t happen to teens just because you gave them good childhoods; they evolve out of lots of experie
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How to Encourage Self-Control in Tweens and Teens
What do you think when you see a child throwing a tantrum, a tween using profanity or a teen taunting a vulnerable peer? And how do you feel when you read about the percentage of students who cheat, the stats on date rape and the latest politician with an alcohol, adultery or gambling problem? Most
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The Wild, Wonderful Teenage Brain: Hardwired to Test Parental Patience?
Are you fuming with anger, sick with worry or just plain bewildered? You’re probably living with a thrill-seeking, risk-embracing teenager, simultaneously capable of precocious wisdom and incredibly foolish choices. Although teen transgressions, such as driving too fast, skipping curfew or choosin
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How to Talk to Your Teen About Sex (and What They Need to Know)
First came the ABCs, now it’s time to learn about STDs. Talking about sex — including birth control, sexual feelings, sex and media and how to say “no” — with your teen is one of those awkward yet essential tasks we must embrace.The reason? Sex, and everything that comes with it, is an important hea
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Disordered Eating or Eating Disorder? What to Watch for, When to Worry
Do you have a teen who’s on a new health kick? Is she watching what she’s eating, cutting calories, limiting carbs? Or maybe you have a tween who has suddenly become a vegan, has started a “cleanse” or lately, peruses the Web by Googling “How do I lose weight?”Is it time to worry? Maybe.Most parents
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Keeping Your Cool: Coping With the College Craziness
Admissions rates of 6 percent? Kids applying to 32 colleges? Sixteen-year-olds with more impressive résumés than Fortune 500 CEOs? Has the nation lost its mind? Why yes, it has. The college admissions process now requires more time, money and psychic energy than ever before. Applications are at
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What to Do When Your Teen Wants a Tattoo or Body Piercing
Just as the youth of the 1960s expressed themselves with long hair and funky clothes, many of today’s teens are using body marking to be “different” and display their individuality. A piercing or tattoo is a way your teen says, “I'm growing up and making my own decisions, even if you don’t like it!”
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Teaching Generation Text: Real Writing in a Virtual World
On a Friday afternoon early in the school year, my creative writing students type furiously on their laptops during five minutes of warm-up freewriting, prompted by a picture of a girl peering into a dark cave and the words: “Tell this story.” Laura, an enthusiastic ninth-grader, raises her hand: “
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